Windows 11 General Discussion

[lexluthermiester]

Secureboot
Oystralia says I'm not able to get tabs on notepad bcz my secureboot might be off

Two points, how do you know it's not, and why don't you use trusted alternatives that do not depend on updates from microsoft?

 

[windwhirl]

Pretty sure you have to manually enable it, it's not on by default
I've seen old articles talking about how windows 11 "will" do it, before 11 launched but havent heard or seen anything about it since then, first hand

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I've had some windows updates bork my PIN and needed to use password, which worked fine offline and online - It'd be damned hard to forget both.
Some people don't bother reading whats in front of them and try typing the PIN at the password screen and vice versa, seen that in person a few times


Edit: got it from the MS website, it's not activating here because i create with local accounts first
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And then because I dont run a giant C: partition with everything on it, even if it did ever cause issues i'd be fine with my other partitions/drives unencrypted


If you use rufus or ventoy and remove the secureboot requirement, this also doesnt happen

I've never had bitlocker turning on on its own. And that's considering I run a pretty default Windows install: login with Microsoft account right after install through OOBE, Secureboot + TPM 2.0 enabled, etc.

 

[Lei]

Two points, how do you know it's not, and why don't you use trusted alternatives that do not depend on updates from microsoft?

I use notepad++ most of time.
But I want to see tabs specially dragging them out into a separate window. Right now in file explorer you can't do that yet. But seems like Microsoft implemented it fully with notepad.

I use Macros in notepad++ a lot. I even set a shortcut key for recording macros (ctrl+r)

Two points, how do you know it's not, and why don't you use trusted alternatives that do not depend on updates from microsoft?

I just updated notepad from Microsoft store. 18 megabytes. no need to get 2 gigabytes dev channel update

 

[stinger608]

Is it even worth doing the upgrade route from 10, or doing the fresh install?

 

[ThrashZone]

Is it even worth doing the upgrade route from 10, or doing the fresh install?

Hi,
I've always done the upgrade and it's gone just fine.
Reason is office/.. and I hate to deal with reactivations.

 

[stinger608]

Yeah, and I have several things I'd like to keep as well. Plus the reactivation of Office as well.

 

[ThrashZone]

Yeah, and I have several things I'd like to keep as well. Plus the reactivation of Office as well.

Hi,
System image and try again if things are wonkey

 

[stinger608]

Hi,
System image and try again if things are wonkey

Yeppers, that's the plan.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Is it even worth doing the upgrade route from 10, or doing the fresh install?

While the upgrade process from 10 to 11 is the most smooth I've ever seen from microsoft, I still lean towards a fresh install. You have nothing to lose by trying the upgrade. If anything goes wrong, fresh install.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Only thing that ever goes wrong is win-11 design so clean install is net zero gain

 

[freeagent]

Reason is office/.. and I hate to deal with reactivations.

Yeah.. after 25 times I now have to call them to deal with my activation.. I just use it for my Resume.. so I don't bother

 

[ThrashZone]

Yeah.. after 25 times I now have to call them to deal with my activation.. I just use it for my Resume.. so I don't bother

Hi,
Phone activation over the many times I've had to use it I finally figured it out a little
When asked this trick question of how many installed use 0 not 1
If you use 1 they count this phone support 2 and throw you out
0 and they will give you another code to use.
Jackasses

 

[freeagent]

Hi,
Phone activation over the many times I've had to use it I finally figured it out a little
When asked this trick question of how many installed use 0 not 1
If you use 1 they count this phone support 2 and throw you out
0 and they will give you another code to use.
Jackasses

Thank you sir, I have never called before but I will remember that.. because I saved your post lol.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Reason is office/.. and I hate to deal with reactivations.

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[AMF]

While the upgrade process from 10 to 11 is the most smooth I've ever seen from microsoft, I still lean towards a fresh install. You have nothing to lose to trying the upgrade. If anything goes wrong, fresh install.

yes fresh install is always better

 

[Mussels]

Notepad++, show those resumes whos boss

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

I have had two rigs all AMD on Win 11 now in recent weeks, its been a great experience. My performance exceeds Win 10 performance.

It does seem to have more consistent FPS on tests others have done.

The best summary is that 11 has had two major problems with AMD CPU's in it's lifetime, that were both patched fairly fast - but news articles about them are often posted AFTER the fix has gone live, and stay online forever

This often gives a lot of negativity the OS doesnt deserve, but it's ragebait that makes ad revenue so it'll never stop (And it'll happen about all tech, everywhere)

That reported major performance bug was only with 21H2, especially before 2022, where 11 was in its infancy.

 

[Space Lynx]

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Enjoy!

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[RJARRRPCGP]

Windows 10 seems to possibly have higher maximum FPS, but it yo-yos more in the tests, IIRC.

 

[sepheronx]

 

[Mussels]

Windows 10 seems to possibly have higher maximum FPS, but it yo-yos more in the tests, IIRC.

someone could easily have results like that in a single test, but thats why when people like w1zz do it, it's offline with defender and scheduled tasks disabled - overall 11 is faster, but anyone can say "its slower vs X" in their own personal setups, because they might have one OS a clean install and the other a bloatware filled mess, or still doing background cleanup tasks from updates or AV scans of their 40TB of hentai

 

[Space Lynx]

How come Windows 11 doesn't automatically just run sfc /scannow? I noticed on almost ever new clean install I have ever done, after a few months of use, I will remember about that sfc thing, run it and it always finds something and fixes it, then its fine again for a long ass time, but still. I just find it strange, why not just make it an automatic thing when idle or when windows update is run, or something.

Am I smarter than six figure paid M$ engineers? Or is there is reason for this nonsense needing to be done manually.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

How come Windows 11 doesn't automatically just run sfc /scannow? I noticed on almost ever new clean install I have ever done, after a few months of use, I will remember about that sfc thing, run it and it always finds something and fixes it, then its fine again for a long ass time, but still.

11 22H2 ISO has a bug: CBS reports corrupted Bluetooth files.

 

[Space Lynx]

11 22H2 ISO has a bug: CBS reports corrupted Bluetooth files.

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[RJARRRPCGP]

CBS ->Component Based Servicing =The system for Windows to service components, including checking files.

This will be shown in CBS.log, when sfc /scannow is ran.